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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [183r] (374/820)
The record is made up of 1 volume (396 folios). It was created in 1910. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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KHA—KHA
345
KHAIRABAD (No. 6)—
A village in the Tarbat i-Shaikh Jam district of Khorasan, situated
75 miles south-east of Meshed, on the main caravan route between that
place and Herat. It contains 150 houses, and in ordinary years the pro
duce of wheat and barley amounts to about 17 000 Indian maunds
Water-supply from a kariz .— (C. Wanliss, October 1903.)
KH AIR A HAT—
A large village of Khorasan, situated on the plateau of Kushkaneh
which is some ten miles from the Kuchan plain.— (Napier.)
KHAIRAT—
A village in the province of Astarabad, 16 miles from Astarabad city
on the road to Shahrud by the Jilin Bilin pass. It is a suitable spot for
the halting place of a force.— (Lovett.)
KHAKISTAR (No. 1)—
A village in the Kalat-i-Nadiri district of Khorasan, situated on the
road between Meshed and Kakhka, 69 miles from the former and 21 miles
from the latter. It has a population of 70 families of Kurds, who own
220 cattle, and 3,000 sheep and goats. The village has a number of gardens
containing walnut trees, and the annual production of wheat and barley in
normal years is 4,500 and 1,800 Indian maunds, respectively. There is a
Customs office.— (Oranoffsky, 1894 ; Watson, 1905.)
KHAKISTAR (No. 2) (Stream)—
A stream in north-eastern Khorasan, which has its source in the Kuh-
i-Hazar Masjid and flows into the Lain Su (q.v.) near the ruins of Robat
i-Khakistar. In its upper reaches it flows through a wooded, rocky and
impassable ravine, but lower down the valley opens out somewhat and
is cultivated in places.
The shortest route between Kakhka and Meshed rmis downs the Lain and
Khakistar valleys.— (Oranoffsky, 1894.)
KHALANLU—
A group of two villages called Khalanlu-i-Bala and Khalanlu-i-Pain in the
Kuchan district of Khorasan a mile or two to the left of the route from
Hisar to Chaqaneh, 24 miles from Saiyidabad.— (C. E. Yate; Schindler.)
KHALIKABAD—
A village, 13 miles north-west of Kirman, on the road to Yazd via Zarand.
_ •—(Sykes 1894.)
KHALlLABAD—L at. 35° 11' 0"; Long. 58° 24' 0".—(Napier.)
A village in Khorasan, about 9 miles west of Turshiz, situated on a
sterile plain. It contains about 3C0 dwellings. On the north of the road
there is a ruined walled, but unoccupied village of the same name, but the
one to the left is that inhabited at present. There is a fine ©Id fort
here, much stronger than is usual in this part of Persia, but it is fast falling
481. B. 2 T
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The item is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).
Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 398; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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